Floodlight, offered under the Apache 2.0 license, is an outgrowth of the Beacon controller created by Big Switch Networks advisor and Stanford PhD candidate David Erickson. It was designed and built ...

Exploring the concept called the "OpenFlow Microcontroller" where an OpenFlow controller runs in its own VM, isolated from embedded software.

Big Switch's Floodlight controller is being offered under Apache 2.0, the open-source license used by the OpenStack cloud computing project, as well as other popular projects like Hadoop.

OpenFlow controllers are central components of SDN as they capture control information from OpenFlow-enabled switches to centrally manage networks.

While updating our directory of open-source projects, specifically the list of OpenFlow Controllers, we came across a framework called FlowER ...

Controllers talk to the switches via the OpenFlow protocol and impose policies on flows. The controller could set up paths through the network optimized for specific characteristics, such as speed ...

In an OpenFlow network, the various control plane functions of an L2 switch — Spanning Tree Protocol, MAC address learning, etc. — are determined by server software rather than switch firmware.

NEC America announced at Interop a new switch based on OpenFlow. Branded ProgrammableFlow, the switches support OpenFlow. The interesting part of the story, though, is what features the controller ...

Switch Light could be key in enabling OpenFlow startups like Big Switch maintain market momentum as incumbent vendors Cisco, IBM, HP and others ready the “Daylight” open source controller ...

The RYU OpenFlow controller which supports OpenFlow 1.2 has been confirmed as working with Pica8’s current PicaOS. For the test we used the reference documents released by Pica8 last week.